CloudBees,
Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today
announced improved integration of the CloudBees Platform with several of
the services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Amazon
Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). The combination of the CloudBees
Platform services along with content delivery, database, networking and
storage services from AWS provide a rich set of capabilities for
developers of enterprise Java applications.

The CloudBees Platform consists of development and runtime services
including forge repositories, continuous integration, testing, staging,
continuous deployment and multiple Java runtime containers. All of the
CloudBees services have been designed to run on the highly reliable and
scalable AWS Cloud computing platform. CloudBees utilizes AWS regions in
North America and Europe for production deployment.

While CloudBees supports multiple infrastructure cloud providers, its
AWS commitment makes CloudBees the PaaS of choice for companies using
AWS who value deep cloud-based development and testing capabilities,
runtime flexibility and a fully managed infrastructure.

With CloudBees, Java developers can now easily take advantage of the
rich set of services provided by AWS including content delivery,
database, networking and storage services. The following set of services
is immediately available to developers to incorporate into their
applications:

Amazon VPC - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) can be
used in conjunction with the CloudBees Platform to create applications
that access enterprise data and services in a highly secure way.
Amazon VPC provides a private, isolated section of the Amazon Web
Services (AWS) cloud where developers can launch AWS resources in a
virtual network. Developers can leverage the enhanced security of
Amazon VPC in combination with the fully managed CloudBees PaaS.
CloudBees experts are available to discuss specific security, topology
or process concerns utilizing Amazon VPC.

Amazon RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
puts you in direct control of your hosted database while offloading
much of the mundane administration. You can eliminate latency issues
by co-locating an Amazon RDS database with your application running on
the CloudBees Platform.

Amazon DynamoDB - Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL
database service that provides fast and predictable performance with
seamless scalability. AWS manages the scaling based on your service
level requirements.

Amazon S3 and Amazon SQS - CloudBees-hosted applications that
need simple persistent storage and queuing can take advantage of
Amazon's Simple Storage Service and Simple Queue Service directly.

“Together Amazon Web Services and the CloudBees Platform offer us
tremendous flexibility, choice and most importantly simplicity in
application development and deployment,” said Dominique Péré, CTO and
co-founder, Podbox.com. “This allows us to focus on our business and
creating innovative applications, not application infrastructure.”

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“AWS is constantly upping the value of the public cloud with great new
services and competitive pricing,” said Steven G. Harris, senior vice
president of products, CloudBees. “It’s important both to developers and
deployers of applications that they can easily take advantage of AWS
investments while enjoying the additional benefits of CloudBees fully
managed, developer-focused platform as a service.”

CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com)
turbo-charges the way Java applications are built and deployed to meet
the rapid pace of business in an on-line and increasingly mobile world.
By eliminating the friction caused by provisioning, maintaining and
administering complex hardware and software infrastructure, we
streamline and accelerate the entire Java application lifecycle from
development to deployment. The CloudBees Platform provides a set of rich
services that are easily consumed by developers, allowing them to
rapidly build and deploy new business applications with zero IT
administrative overhead. Our AnyCloud Service Architecture enables those
applications to be easily deployed to any public, regional or enterprise
cloud environment. CloudBees serves the needs of a wide range of
businesses from small startups that want to focus on quickly creating
new on-line businesses to large IT organizations that need to rapidly
respond to new business application projects.

Backed by Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, CloudBees was
founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of
middleware and open source technology professionals.

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